How much do private coaches help the student?

ActingDad
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:49:10 +0000

My daughter ended up using a coach recommended here by two CC Moms. She’s an accomplished actress and one time BFA program faculty who sort of fell into working with students on college auditions. Similar to one of the above posts, she helped by presenting a large number of monologues from a very large library she has developed. It was not anything like you should do that one. It was more like her are a huge bunch of possibilities – take the wholel play with you, read in context, and see if it works. Another area she helped with was getting my daughter over her fear of comedic pieces. She’s naturally funny but always was more comfortable with drama because she felt like she always had to try to be funny rather than let it flow. Much of this was less about actual advice – do this, do that, etc. – but building confidence as to what works. She talks to her a lot about the mental aspects of it and keeping the right frame of mind.

With the right choice of a coach, it is hard to imagine it not being helpful.